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History is more than just text on a page; it is the photographs, voices, and artifacts of the people who lived it. The images and recordings featured across Foundations and Futures are part of a meticulously curated media repository. Whether you are building a lesson plan or investigating an artifact, you can use this database to trace the provenance of our media: discover who created an asset, the historical context behind it, and how it can be used to bring Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences into your classroom.
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Reverend Augustus W. Loomis
Reverend Augustus W. Loomis was a Presbyterian missionary who sought to convert Chinese migrants in San Francisco to Christianity throughout the 1860s and 1870s. Prior to his work in California, Loomis worked at an Indian boarding school for Creek children. Indian boarding schools were abusive institutions that abducted Indigenous children from their homes and imprisoned them in residential complexes where students were forcibly “civilized” into white Christianity. Hundreds of Native children died in boarding schools, where they were subjected to attempted cultural genocide, unliveable conditions, and immense violence at the hands of their “caretakers.”
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Mary McGladery
Mary McGladery, assistant matron, Ladies’ Protection and Relief Society, who raised Mary Tape, 1869-1875.
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Ladies’ Protection and Relief Society
The Ladies’ Protection and Relief Society home for abandoned children (c. 1860), where Mary Tape was the only Chinese child resident.
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Portrait of Joseph and Mary Tape
Portrait of the Tapes in the early 1930s.
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Mary, Mamie and Frank Tape, 1895
Sisters Mamie (left), Emily (right), and Gertrude play together in Berkeley, circa 1895.
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Chinese in Our Schools
This article from the Daily Alta announces the California Superior Court’s verdict on the Tape v. Hurley case and advocates for the creation of laws to protect white students from the “danger” of Chinese integration.
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Tape Family Portrait in the late 1920s
Photo of the Tapes in the late 1920s. Standing from left to right: Gertrude, Frank, and Emily. Sitting: Mary, Mamie, and Joseph.
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Tape Family Portrait in 1884
Portrait of the Tape family, circa 1884. Featured from left to right: Joseph, Emily, Mamie, Frank, and Mary.
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Exclusion Act
The Exclusion Act (May 6, 1882) banned entry of Chinese migrant laborers into the United States. It was the first piece of significant legislation restricting migration into the United States and set precedent for the country’s ongoing discriminatory immigration policies.
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The Democratic Chinese Exclusion Bill Exclusion Poster
Poster “Hip! Hurrah! Chinese Excluded” by the Democratic County Central Committee celebrates the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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The Magic Washer
An advertisement poster for “The Magic Washer” manufactured by Geo. Dee, Dixon, Illinois, circa 1886. This illustration depicts Chinese migrants as “dirt” that needs to be “washed away.”
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Affidavit for Tape v. Hurley
California Supreme Court affidavit for Tape v. Hurley
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Chinese Primary School Students
Photo of Chinese primary school students in San Francisco, circa 1890. Mamie is in the center of the second row, and Frank is to her right. Photograph by Isaiah Taber.
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Portrait of Mamie Tape
Portrait of Mamie Tape, circa 1884.
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Minoru Yasui
From left to right, top to bottom: Min Yasui, Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu, and Mitsuye Endo brought lawsuits challenging government violations of Japanese Americans’ civil liberties.
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Protesting Contemporary Detention Centers
Soon after the Dilley protest, the Trump administration announced plans to indefinitely imprison hundreds of immigrant children at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. That locale had a bitter history for Japanese Americans, because the United States imprisoned seven hundred Issei men there during World War II. A guard shot one of them dead. Tsuru for Solidarity organized a protest at Fort Sill featuring five Japanese American elders who had been incarcerated in US concentration camps during World War II. One week after the protest, the Trump administration announced that it would not detain migrant children at Fort Sill. This video documents the protest.
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Campaign for Justice
Members of Campaign for Justice, a group formed in 1996 to advocate for redress for Japanese Latin Americans who were deported from their countries during World War II and interned in the United States.
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Karen Korematsu, Holly Yasui, and Jay Hirabayashi
In 2017, President Trump issued an executive order banning people from several Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. Karen Korematsu, Holly Yasui, and Jay Hirabayashi, children of three men who filed lawsuits challenging the violation of their rights during World War II, submitted a legal brief to the US Supreme Court in a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s travel ban.
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U.S. Government Written Apology
Japanese Americans who had been wrongfully imprisoned during World War II received this formal apology from the US government.
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L.A. Commission Hearing
The Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians held hearings throughout the United States, including in Los Angeles from August 4–6, 1981, during which 153 people testified. Each hearing was packed like this one.
